Planas arrives in Brussels with the'mirror clauses' lost and farmers keep an eye on the Government in the streets. But does Spain have any real option to introduce mirror clauses in EU trade agreements with third parties? "A dead end" The room for maneuver is tight.
"The idea of imposing mirror clauses so that the imported product meets the same conditions sounds very good, but it is complex," says Tomásás García Azcárate, an agronomist and economist.